in spain, more than 5,000 medical workers taking to the streets protesting budget cuts and to partly privatize the country's health service. >> gregg: as the tragic shooting in newtown, connecticut inspires soul searching nationwide, everything from school safety to mental illness to the family itself, there is growing debate over just how lawmakers are reacting. what kind of dialogue this horrifying crime might inspire in our nation's capital. steve centanni has more on that. >> reporter: shock and sadness in washington, that for sure in the wake of that tragedy in newtown and at the same time some ideas are being floated aimed at preventing the same kind of thing from happening again. out going senator joe lieberman and independent from connecticut has this recommendation. >> i think we need a national commission on mass violence, not to be in place 6 anything else the president or congress or state governments might want to do but to make sure that the heartbreak and the anger that we feel now is not dissipated over time or lost in legislative gridlock. >> reporter: in his call fo